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the title of the main topic in the Address read to the Entomological 

 Society of London by the President, the Rev. Francis David Morice, 

 M.A. At considerable length, and with minute detail and precision, 

 the author describes the complex actions carried on in the use of 

 these highly developed organs, giving a full account of his own 

 original observations. He gives two plates of figures of these wonder- 

 ful organs, and also five other plates to illustrate his historical 

 summary of our previous knowledge of this group, as given in the 

 works of Vallisnieri and Reaumur. 



The Entonioloijiiik Tidskijt of Stockholm, for 1911, contains a 

 considerable amount of Lepidopterous matter concerning the Fauna of 

 the Scandinavian area. Torsten Largerberg gives a long series of 

 notes on the Swedish Macro-lepidoptera, J. Werner-Nielson summarises 

 the distribution of the Macro-lepidoptera of Norway, -lohn Peyron 

 furnishes a series of notes on the life-histones of various species, 

 Ossian Dalgren describes the pupation of ' nssus cossks, Erik Uretland 

 discusses and figures Kriuf^aster la)ifiitris var. arhiisridac from Norway, 

 etc. One of the most important papers published is that by the ex- 

 plorer Yngve Sjostedt on the Termites of the Congo State. With the 

 TUhlnift for the year has also been published a general index of this 

 periodical for the past twenty years. We can only use W'ords of praise 

 for such efiorts. Without a periodical Index of Indexes it is an 

 Huormous labour to wade through volume after volume of our 

 magazines only to find probably that one has missed an important 

 item through the mere fag of the trouble. 



The Annals of Srottisit Xatinal UiHtori/ has ceased to appear as 

 siicb, but with the omission of botany it is resuscitated under the title 

 of T/n' Scottisli XatKralist, and is apparently still to be carried on 

 under the auspices of the personnel of the Royal Scottish Museum. 

 Instead of being issued quarterly it now appears monthly. In the 

 January number Mr. W. Evans has an article on the appearance of 

 the handsome dragonfly SijuipetriDn fonxcolonibii as new to the Scottish 

 list. 



In the Iviit. Mu. May. for February Mr. J. E. Collin gives a 

 further section of the notes on new Diptera by the late G. H. Verrall. 

 Hilaia beclieri from Aviemoie and Brodie ; U. carintliiaca from many 

 localities; H. brain'rl horn the late W. Wilson Saunder's collection; 

 H. Itinera) mi canii from various localities; //. Iietcnn/astra from 

 Wormsley; //. ciiitiidata from Ringwood, Porthcawl, etc.; iEdalea 

 i/fjicalia from the New Forest; Trichiiia upara from Nairn and Wicken ; 

 Lept()f>eza sji/wnojitcrn from Portbcawl, Ivybridge, etc. ; iHinocera 

 wesinaelii from Hereford; Aidoptera ocellatu from the Isle of Wight ; 

 Tachista tnbi'iridatd from Herefordshire ; I'nilopKs loeiri from Scotland 

 Fen, Suli'olk; Ihduhoputi rilift'»iuiattis from Porthcawl ; and I'aerilti- 

 bdtlinis roiiiitialis from Seaford and Walton-on-Naze. For many of 

 these records we note that Mr. Verrall was indebted to the assiduous 

 work of that keen student of this Order, Colonel J. W. Yerbury. 



In the I'int. Ma. Mofi. for February, Mr. Eustace R. Bankes con- 

 tributes an article, with a plate of comparative genitalia, on Munufiis 

 rrocivajiitella { fcnitfiinella, in part, luriiun, hi/alimila, and linnbardico) 

 and ,1/. f't-rnii/intllii. He points out that the former species is 

 essentially a coast insect and very local, while the latter is generally 

 distributed inland. 



